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Grahame , one more question , and it may sound off topic , when you removed the flywheel , was the large thick felt seal present around the stator plate.

Andy.

H7 h6 or js6 , forgive my ignorance , but what exactly does that mean.

Andy.

Sok sikert a javításhoz, és remélem sikerül újra rendesen működnie. Nincsenek brosúrám a Tecnamotor motorokról, ezek nagyon ritkák az Egyesült Királyságban. Ne is gondold, hogy láttam egyet. Köszönöm szíves prospektusajánlatát, de csak az általam birtokolt vagy dolgozni fogott motorokról van és kérek információt. Tartson naprakészen minket…[Read more]

Am thinking very much along the same lines. The pulley should be done up tight against the flywheel, the roll pin prevents that. There is a strong possibility that if it is pulled tight it will pull the crank slightly towards the flywheel end. Am going to grind in the valves, so the stator plate has to come off. Will also get the deposits in…[Read more]

Grahame, I have an idea what someone has done, the flywheel nut should be done up quite tight without the need of locktite, and with it being held in position with the roll pin and flywheel locktited sort of sends shivers down my back. and it could be penny has dropped. Right the crankshaft should be pulled up tight against that mag sides bearing,…[Read more]

Grahame , it would concern me when you said the pulley came of by hand , I can’t help but think all’s not right somewhere and would lead to flywheel/key/ crankshaft failure.All the 2As I’ve worked on the pulley tightens right up , and requires the impact gun to undo.
The points gap is usually stamped into the points inspection cover , I would…[Read more]

If using Windows on a PC, the default program will have a slider in the bottom right hand corner of the monitor with a – on the left, a + on the right. Move the slider to the right to zoom in. Alternatively, with the mouse cursor over the image, roll the mouse wheel up, away from your hand.

The roll pin is actually 3off, 2 larger ones and a c…[Read more]

És sikeresen megjavítva az 1982es modell.remekül zakatol Alán urat már rég láttam itt.érdekelne hogy a Tecnamotor katalógusa eredetiben is megvan?illetve vannak még brochúrái a Tecnamotor korszakból?

David , I’m not at all savvy with PCs , and haven’t yet fathomed how to blow-up photos , but the rollpin in his pics appears to me to be on the opposite end to the threaded part , but of course I could well be mistaken on that. Grahame states that he knocked the rollpin out , which to me would suggest that it went through the crankshaft ,…[Read more]

Andy In Grahame’s photo just visible I recon can see hole in the thread towards its end, I have seen all these sort of things bodges get up to, like a nut coming loose so they found one with a tighter thread being a different thread rate. Going back many years the one of the engines I had was a bit flat for some time but always started and checked…[Read more]

Grahame , I never said or meant you were complicating your ignition ideas , I admire you for having a go , and I really do hope it works , It appears to me a sound idea , if the situation happens whereby the original components are not available. Whilst parts are still readily available I tend to go down that route.
I have a large ammount of…[Read more]

Dear David,

Had another look at the engine yesterday and indeed it does have a head gasket. When I took the head off on Saturday I only took a quick look at it, noting it had numbers stamped on the contact face. It was covered in thick green paint. The numbers were an imprint of those stamped on the cylinder and into the soft head gasket. A…[Read more]

Am afraid there is a huge variation in prices. It depends very much on the condition and what the vendor thinks it’s worth. That’s often a lot more than it would get in an auction where the starting price is low and the bidders raise it until sold. Suggest one in poor condition is worth twice scrap value, say £25 and 10X that for a good runner.

Andy,

I would agree that a 2A is a very simple engine to work on. Where we will diverge hugely is that because the flywheel was all but welded onto the crankshaft, it was a devil of a job to get it off. Your method would have failed in the first instance. Persisting in it would have damaged or broken associated parts.

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Jó látni, hogy mivel foglalkoztál, és várom a jövőbeli bejegyzéseket.

Andy Yes reckon the roll pin come the bodge it it up brigade as never seen a flywheel nut come loose had alloy break a few times where the rope hooks onto so fitted a new one and found the alloy is just a tight push fit so skimmed a bit off the steel and welded a nut and pressed the alloy back on this makes it so much easier to fit and all that I…[Read more]

I think that a increase to £30 for membership is a good move to maintain a high standard magazine and keep this club going.

You will recall the outcry when Kelsey stopped publishing the Horticultural magazine and the support there was for making the Cultivator the magazine for those Horticultural enthusiasts.

I am a bit concerned about a online…[Read more]

Grahame , you do seem to have made a most simple task complicated , 2As are one of , if not THE simplest engines to work on , as you have now seen , no awkward taper flywheels , keyed timing. Every 2A that I’ve done have always had a head gasket.
I can’t see from your pics , but did the rollpin actually go through the crankshaft , or just through…[Read more]

Hi Andy,

Please ignore the text in my last post. Am chatting to a chap in Australia who has done a 2A up and asked him about removing the flywheel too. I did the original text to him, them slightly edited it for you. Copied it to paste into the VHGMC forum box and for some reason (think because I had not saved the Word.doc before editing),…[Read more]

Hi Baz. Got the flywheel off yesterday, had a right game with it. Think Facebook only allow one photo in a reply to a post, so will send what I have in a succession of replies to illustrate the matters better. Believe the year of manufacture to be 1951 with the H (missing the bottom left leg) after 2A. Do not think the engine has done much…[Read more]